The council had previously denied him these documents, but in the presence of attorneys and cameras, suddenly the council had no problem complying. The documents are now under review by civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump’s firm.

Davis says if the council does not jumpstart a plan for racial inclusion, his next step is filing a lawsuit against them.

According to reports, Camilla has kept the city cemetery divided by race for almost a hundred years. When Davis pointed this out, City Manager Bennett Adams, who is white, insisted it was just a coincidence that the graves of African-American residents and white residents were separated by a wire fence.

Still, community members and civil rights activists managed to come together to commemorate the action.

“It was my hope that we could have worked together, bringing the community together — both black and white — to partake in a cathartic exercise, removing this ugly symbol of segregation and unifying our community. Unfortunately, the city did not give us advance notice,” the mayor said in a statement. “However, at the end of the day, I am happy to see the fence coming down.”

There’s more. In a town with a population that is 70 percentAfrican-American, Davis pointed out that there are no African-American police officers.

Of course, Adams claimed this was a coincidence too. He supposedly had not been able to find any qualified African-Americanofficers in the past, but once Davis exposed this inequality, Adams found and hired a qualified African-American officer within a few weeks.

While council members and Adams continue to try to make excuses for their glaring racism, Davis has pledged to fight the until his city is desegregated.